1988: Parent & Child

Panel: Daughters in Rebellion

Date

Mar 22nd, 1988

Participants

Louise Erdrich

Michael Dorris

Mona Simpson

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

73:54

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V356, V357

This audiovisual recording from March 22, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child” features Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, and Mona Simpson forming the panel “Daughters in Rebellion.” The panelists discuss how their work approaches familial rebellion, writing characters of other ethnicities, their process and writing habits, how characters develop, the factual which seems surreal, familial influences, and the role of setting and the potential of rural and urban settings.

Reading: Louise Erdrich

In this video recording from March 22, 1988 during the 19th Annual UND Writers Conference, “Parent and Child,” Louise Erdrich reads an excerpt from The Beet Queen. She also reads “The Butcher’s Wife.”

Panel: Single Moms

Date

Mar 23rd, 1988

Participants

Louise Erdrich

Michael Dorris

Mona Simpson

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

64:37

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V359, V360

This audiovisual recording from March 23, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child” features Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, and Mona Simpson forming the panel “Single Moms.” The panelists discuss the complexities of the American family, grandmothers in their novels, the purpose of fiction, reactions to Erdrich and Dorris's writing about reservation communities, and the panel's literary influences.

Reading: Michael Dorris

In this video recording from March 23, 1988 during the 19th Annual UND Writers Conference, “Parent and Child,” Michael Dorris reads excerpts from A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. The recording begins with a presentation to Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich by a number of Native American students from UND.

Reading: Mona Simpson

Date

Mar 23rd, 1988

Participants

Mona Simpson

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

33:42

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V362

In this audiovisual recording from March 23, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child,” Mona Simpson reads from the beginning of Anywhere But Here.

Panel: Fathers and Daughters

Date

Mar 24th, 1988

Participants

Adam Hochschild

Patrick Hemingway

W. D. Snodgrass

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

64:31

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V363, V364

This audiovisual recording from March 24, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child” features Adam Hochschild, Patrick Hemingway, and W.D. Snodgrass forming the panel “Fathers and Daughters.” The panelists discuss prominent women writers and their relationships with their fathers, parenting, and journalistic writing. Patrick Hemingway discusses his father's work habits, and the other panelists discuss their work habits, and approaching gender inequality.

Moderator: Dan Sheridan.

Reading: Adam Hochschild

In this video recording from March 24, 1988 during the 19th Annual UND Writers Conference, “Parent and Child,” Adam Hochschild reads an excerpt from Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son. He concludes by answering questions from the audience.

Panel: Fathers and Sons

Date

Mar 25th, 1988

Participants

Adam Hochschild

Patrick Hemingway

W. D. Snodgrass

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

68:34

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V367, V368

This audiovisual recording from March 25, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child” features Adam Hochschild, Patrick Hemingway, and W.D. Snodgrass forming the panel “Fathers and Sons.” The panelists discuss the literary tradition and historical power of father and son relationships, their writing about their fathers, the strength of the father's role in a family, writing about sibling relationships, Adolf Hitler and his father's relationship, and the writers' relationships with their fathers. Snodgrass reads passages from two sections in Afterimages: “The House of Snodgrass” and “Grandfathers and Sons” as well as the poem “The Poet Mocked by Hysterical Academics.”

Moderated by Michael Anderegg.

Reading: Patrick Hemingway

Date

Mar 25th, 1988

Participants

Patrick Hemingway

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

60:00

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V369

In this audiovisual recording from March 25, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child,” Patrick Hemingway reads selections of his father's and brother's work. Hemingway reads from Gregory Hemingway's Papa: A Personal Memoir, and Ernest Hemingway's unpublished story “I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something.” He also responds to audience questions about the events of both stories, and his father's parenting.

Reading: W. D. Snodgrass

Date

Mar 25th, 1988

Participants

W. D. Snodgrass

Digitization Status

permissions pending, digitization planned

Run time

60:04

Archival Format

U-Matic/VHS

Call Number

V1700

In this audiovisual recording from March 25, 1988 as part of the 19th annual UND Writing Conference: “Parent & Child,” W.D. Snodgrass reads a selection of sketches from Afterimages and poems from Remains, which he published under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. Snodgrass reads the essays “Good Housekeeping” and “Paralysis,” and the poems “The Mother,” “Fourth of July,” and “To a Child.”